Individual elevator call changing device

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EP 0 970 911 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	15.11.2000 Bulletin 2000/46

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	12.01.2000 Bulletin 2000/02

(21)	Application number: 99111922.3

(22)	Date of filing: 22.06.1999

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: B66B 1/46

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

07.07.1998 US 111077

(71)	Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
	Farmington, CT 06032 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Zaharia, Vlad Rocky Hill, CT 06067 (US)

(74)	Representative: Hughes, Andrea Michelle
	Frank B. Dehn & Co., European Patent Attorneys, 179 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4EL London EC4V 4EL (GB)

(54)	Individual elevator call changing device

(57) A personal remote control device 100 exchanges electromagnetic transmissions with an elevator system, each transmission including the identification number of the device, whereby requests for elevator service made by means of the device are unique to that device, and requests can be made by the device to cancel or change any request for elevator service which has previously been made. The remote control device may either be verbal, communicating with the user by means of speech synthesis and voice recognition, or the device may utilize switches, displays or other mechanisms for interaction with the user.

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